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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 18, 22 January 1916, Page 8

The British Navy is to be increased by 30,000 men, who are. to be a first call under the Compulsory Service Bill. In many parishes in Devon farmers have decided not to harvest their cider apples, of which there is a big crop,' and ar c turning their pigs into the orchards to eat the fruit that has already fallen. Farmers say that with labour so short it leaves no margin of profit •to sell their apples at the current price of £1 per ton. The early occupation of Featherston Military Camp by the troops now at Tauheirenikau will render unnecessary what may be termed one of the largest gongs ever used. It consists of a whole length of railway iron suspended vertically between two posts. On being struck w T ith a large mallet it gives out a deep, booming,. vibrating note, "which can be heal’d in any pait of the camp and adjoining grounds, and is used as a signal that the workmen’s mehls are ready. With the advent of the troops the bugles will replace it.